Semi-truck orders set monthly record in September
September 28, 2022
Sold out for 2023
“In my 40 years I’ve never seen such a change [like] in the last two years,”
said Steve Bassett, president of General Truck Sales, which operates three Volvo dealerships in Indiana and Ohio. “Pre-COVID, we would sell maybe 80% of our trucks out of stock. We literally sold out for all of next year. Every one of those trucks we ordered for 2023 production had a name on it.”
Bassett said his Muncie, Indiana-based General Truck Sales expects to receive 400 build slots for the 1,200 orders he placed.
Strong demand is a certainty.
“We’ve already forecasted this year at about 300,000 units for Canada, USA and Mexico, and while we haven’t yet put a number out, we forecast and we expect that demand next year will be stronger than this year,”
Jonathan Randall, Mack Trucks senior vice president of sales, told a group of media last month.
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